WhatsApp Will Get Indicators To Highlight Encrypted Chats (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 30, 2016 @05:23AM from the whatsapp-alice-and-bob? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: WhatsApp 3.0 will come with two privacy-related changes. The first is in the Security section and is in the form of a new setting called "Show security indicators." Turning on this setting will add a lock icon to your WhatsApp whenever you're having encrypted conversations. The second new setting is in the Account section, with the addition of a new option that says "Share my account info." This setting will send the user's WhatsApp data to Facebook servers "to improve [their] Facebook experiences."

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Re:security indicators? who needs them? by softnewsit · 2016-01-30 05:42 · Score: 3, Informative

As explained in the article. This is a PR move. WhatsApp already sent traffic via encrypted channels, but newly-launched apps advertised themselves as "super-mega-encrypted" and WhatsApp is losing face because it's not. They're just showing an indicator to let you know they're "cool" also.

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